.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 315 157
Rank change year-on-year +92 -158 -3
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 776 401 1,602
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.89% 0.93% 1.78%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 8.46% 5.00% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 750 338 1,447
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £106,250 £93,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,175 8,016 17,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.58% 18.61% 19.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,013 5,440 13,888
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £102,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -9.09%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +97 195 £55,000 +10.00% 48
North of England +25 169 £55,000 -8.33% 39
East of England +73 115 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Midlands +40 110 £55,000 -8.33% 24
London -82 94 £82,500 - 55
South West 0 89 £52,500 - 11
North West 0 71 £50,000 -16.67% 21
North East +11 67 £65,000 +33.33% 9
West Midlands +13 62 £55,000 -8.33% 14
East Midlands +8 48 £55,000 +4.76% 10
Yorkshire -33 31 £55,000 -10.20% 10
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.29%) IIS
3 7 (0.90%) CMS
4 4 (0.52%) Confluence
4 4 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
4 4 (0.52%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.39%) DNN
5 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.39%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Kentico
5 3 (0.39%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Magento
1 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 616 (79.38%) Azure
2 198 (25.52%) Azure DevOps
3 144 (18.56%) GitHub
4 133 (17.14%) Azure AI
5 132 (17.01%) AWS
6 131 (16.88%) GitHub Copilot
7 63 (8.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 53 (6.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 42 (5.41%) SaaS
10 41 (5.28%) Power Platform
11 34 (4.38%) Serverless
12 27 (3.48%) Power Automate
12 27 (3.48%) PowerApps
13 26 (3.35%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (2.96%) Azure Functions
14 23 (2.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 22 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 19 (2.45%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 19 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
16 19 (2.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 47 (6.06%) Internet
2 7 (0.90%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Firewall
5 1 (0.13%) AMQP
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) Modbus
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
5 1 (0.13%) SSL
5 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (57.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 373 (48.07%) MongoDB
3 147 (18.94%) Elasticsearch
4 139 (17.91%) SQL Server
5 36 (4.64%) Power BI
6 13 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.55%) MySQL
8 11 (1.42%) NonStop SQL
9 8 (1.03%) Redis
10 7 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.90%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (0.64%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.39%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 37 (4.77%) Git
2 12 (1.55%) JIRA
3 7 (0.90%) GitLab
4 5 (0.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.52%) MSI
6 3 (0.39%) Claude Code
6 3 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.39%) NUnit
6 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.39%) Vite
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Postman
7 2 (0.26%) webpack
8 1 (0.13%) MSTest
8 1 (0.13%) Selenium
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 115 (14.82%) Finance
2 56 (7.22%) Advertising
3 53 (6.83%) Social Skills
4 46 (5.93%) Games
5 40 (5.15%) Marketing
6 32 (4.12%) Retail
7 19 (2.45%) Banking
8 14 (1.80%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.55%) Analytical Skills
10 11 (1.42%) Music Industry
11 9 (1.16%) Automotive
11 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (1.16%) Law
12 8 (1.03%) Front Office
13 7 (0.90%) Legal
14 5 (0.64%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.64%) Public Sector
15 4 (0.52%) Back Office
15 4 (0.52%) Electronics
15 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 655 (84.41%) Developer
2 524 (67.53%) .NET Developer
3 104 (13.40%) Senior
4 88 (11.34%) Software Developer
5 62 (7.99%) Senior Developer
6 60 (7.73%) C# Developer
7 50 (6.44%) C# .NET Developer
8 46 (5.93%) Lead
8 46 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 39 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 30 (3.87%) Lead Developer
11 26 (3.35%) .NET Software Engineer
12 23 (2.96%) .NET Software Developer
12 23 (2.96%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (2.58%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
13 20 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 19 (2.45%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (2.32%) Senior .NET Developer
16 17 (2.19%) Azure Engineer
16 17 (2.19%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 776 (100.00%) .NET
2 497 (64.05%) ASP.NET
3 441 (56.83%) ASP.NET Core
4 214 (27.58%) HTML
5 211 (27.19%) CSS
6 209 (26.93%) Entity Framework
7 203 (26.16%) Blazor
8 198 (25.52%) React
9 177 (22.81%) AngularJS
9 177 (22.81%) Vue
10 175 (22.55%) RESTful
11 172 (22.16%) ASP.NET Web API
12 158 (20.36%) Node.js
13 133 (17.14%) ML.NET
14 131 (16.88%) .NET Framework
15 108 (13.92%) LINQ
16 59 (7.60%) REST
17 43 (5.54%) JSON
18 31 (3.99%) WPF
19 21 (2.71%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.34%) Greenfield Project
2 54 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (2.58%) Digital TV
4 17 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.19%) iPhone
4 17 (2.19%) Mobile App
5 14 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (1.80%) Hedge funds
6 13 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 13 (1.68%) Social Network
6 13 (1.68%) Sports Betting
7 12 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.42%) BBC
8 11 (1.42%) Social Media
9 9 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 8 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 7 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.90%) Client/Server
12 6 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.19%) Android
2 14 (1.80%) Windows
3 12 (1.55%) VMS
4 3 (0.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (66.88%) Full-Stack Development
2 398 (51.29%) Agile
3 250 (32.22%) CI/CD
4 233 (30.03%) DevOps
5 199 (25.64%) Microservices
6 157 (20.23%) AI
7 153 (19.72%) Machine Learning
8 144 (18.56%) Multithreading
9 97 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 85 (10.95%) Scrum
11 82 (10.57%) OO
11 82 (10.57%) TDD
12 68 (8.76%) BDD
13 58 (7.47%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
14 57 (7.35%) Kanban
15 56 (7.22%) SDLC
16 53 (6.83%) User Experience
17 52 (6.70%) Analytics
18 49 (6.31%) Business Intelligence
19 47 (6.06%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 736 (94.85%) C#
2 538 (69.33%) SQL
3 244 (31.44%) JavaScript
4 215 (27.71%) TypeScript
5 37 (4.77%) PowerShell
6 21 (2.71%) Python
7 13 (1.68%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (0.64%) Bicep
9 5 (0.64%) Java
10 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.39%) Bash
11 3 (0.39%) PHP
11 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.13%) C++
12 1 (0.13%) Delphi
12 1 (0.13%) F#
12 1 (0.13%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 43 (5.54%) Degree
2 21 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (1.03%) Security Cleared
4 5 (0.64%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.26%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (2.96%) QA
2 19 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 5 (0.64%) WCAG
4 4 (0.52%) NCSC
5 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.26%) GDPR
6 2 (0.26%) ITGC
6 2 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 192 (24.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 180 (23.20%) Kubernetes
2 16 (2.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 509 (65.59%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.70%) Facebook
3 41 (5.28%) Google
4 21 (2.71%) YouTube
5 19 (2.45%) Adobe
6 11 (1.42%) Apple
6 11 (1.42%) Sony
6 11 (1.42%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.77%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.52%) Sitecore
8 4 (0.52%) Workday
9 3 (0.39%) Alterian
9 3 (0.39%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.39%) Optimizely
9 3 (0.39%) Splunk
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle
10 2 (0.26%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.13%) IBM
11 1 (0.13%) Reuters